"Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse."

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Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.96

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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“To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap.”
“They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.”
“Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.”
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”

Source : "Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.
“I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.”
“You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.”
“He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.”
“When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.”

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